CVE-2022-26353
HIGH
7.5
CVSS Score
Published: March 16, 2022 at 02:02 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 04:35 AM UTC
2 products affected across 2 vendorsDebian LinuxQEMU
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Severity
HIGH7.5
Exploit prediction
EPSS 3%
Description
A flaw was found in the virtio-net device of QEMU. This flaw was inadvertently introduced with the fix for CVE-2021-3748, which forgot to unmap the cached virtqueue elements on error, leading to memory leakage and other unexpected results. Affected QEMU version: 6.2.0.
Affected
Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
References (5)
x_refsource_MISCPatchThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/commit/abe300d9d894f7138e1af7c8e9c88c04bfe98b37x_refsource_MISCMailing ListPatchVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2022-03/msg02438.htmlVendor Advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-27x_refsource_CONFIRMThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20220425-0003/Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5133CVSS
- Attack Vector
- NETWORK
- Complexity
- LOW
- Privileges
- NONE
- User Interaction
- NONE
- Scope
- UNCHANGED
- Confidentiality
- NONE
- Integrity
- NONE
- Availability
- HIGH
Vector?
Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-772
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